bizarre The Ancient Mummy that simply shouldn't exist

[Bad Hippo]

In September of 1991, a couple of mountaineers discover a body, entombed in the ice while in The Alps. The thought it was perhaps the body of a fallen mountaineer, so they reported their discovery to the authorities. However, the body they have found is old. Seriously old. From over 5000 years in the past...

 

[hedgerow]

it could still be a fallen mountaineer, just 5000 years old

 

[Blunt Man]

Bro was hitting the dab before it was cool

 

[Tinkle_Star]

Looks good for his age…

 

[Dr Deacon]

Ah it's Otzi - saw a fantastic program on TV about him. Two amateurs tried to smash him out of the ice with hammers and a pneumatic drill and damaged him.

 

[GarGoil]

Ah it's Otzi - saw a fantastic program on TV about him. Two amateurs tried to smash him out of the ice with hammers and a pneumatic drill and damaged him.

You! Need to send me a direct message.

 

[Tuomas Woorhees]

Interesting.

 

[CunningLinguist]

Is that what we white people look like?

Damn - they need some sun.

 

[Jenny]

it could still be a fallen mountaineer, just 5000 years old

He was shot in the back with an arrow. Prolly a criminal tryna elude someone.
He lives in Italy now.

Who was Ötzi the Iceman?

Meet Europe’s five-thousand-year-old murder victim.

www.pbs.org

 

[hedgerow]

He was shot in the back with an arrow. Prolly a criminal tryna elude someone.
He lives in Italy now.

Who was Ötzi the Iceman?

Meet Europe’s five-thousand-year-old murder victim.

www.pbs.org

wow, i thought you were kidding at first, but he really was hit with an arrow...the article mentions he was dark, so he was probably a criminal like you say

 

[Squishy_Sanders]

Doesn’t look a day older than 4999 years old

 

[wiggins]

He's not mumified, he's frozen. Freezing allows slow changes to take place in flesh. Fat can become wax like.

Scott and his crew will be looking a bit like this now, buried a hundred metres deep in the Beardmore Glacier slow making their way north to the sea...

 

[Bad Hippo]

He's not mumified, he's frozen. Freezing allows slow changes to take place in flesh. Fat can become wax like.

Scott and his crew will be looking a bit like this now, buried a hundred metres deep in the Beardmore Glacier slow making their way north to the sea...

"Ötzi, also called The Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC. Ötzi's remains were discovered on 19 September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps at the Austria–Italy border. He is Europe's oldest known natural human mummy, offering an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic Europeans."

@wiggins - feel free to showcase how you are correct that he's not a mummy, while every other scholar believes he is.

 

[Harumph]

Clearly, Europeans didn't like Turks back then, either.

 

[Dax_Knight]

OTZI...

 

[dwdays]

That poor fucker had more problems than a white republican.

 

[Rhino2818]

it could still be a fallen mountaineer, just 5000 years old

That's what I initially thought as well, until someone said about an arrow head on his back.